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Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) is one of the most celebrated British Portrait photographers of the twentieth century and is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. His influence on portrait photography was profound and lives on today in the work of many contemporary photographers.In the 1920s and 30s Beaton used his camera, his ambition and his larger-than-life personality to mingle with a flamboyant and rebellious group of artists a...

Excerpt from Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Busts, &C., In the National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, W. C: Including Every Portrait Up to the Present DateWe never read of the actions of any distinguished individual without feeling a desire to see a resemblance of his person. We often imagine that we can trace the character of the man in the expression of his countenance: and we retain a more correct recollection...

Excerpt from Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Busts, &C., In the National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, W. C: Including Every Portrait Up to the Present DateWe never read of the actions of any distinguished individual without feeling a desire to see a resemblance of his person. We often imagine that we can trace the character of the man in the expression of his countenance: and we retain a more correct recollection...

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Excerpt from National Worthies: Being a Selection From the National Portrait GalleryA copy in water colours by Julia J. G. Lady Abercromby, after the original portrait by Professor H. Von Angeli, taken in 1875.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolog...

Excerpt from The National Portrait GalleryThe immediate rendering of the allegory is that Arthur is the higher and more spiritual part of man-that the knights of the Table Round are the faculties which yield willing subjection to a pure conscience - that the uncultivated waste ravaged by the beast and overrun with wrong is that against which it is a man's duty in this world to fight, and is partly within and partly without, as all men find it....

Excerpt from Supplement to the Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Busts, Etc., In the National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, W. C: April 1906Journalist. Comic-writer, and police magistrate. Born in London and educated at Westminster School. Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, but devoted himself to literature. His writings being chie¿y in the comic vein, he produced and edited the first comic paper in London, called Fig...

Excerpt from The National Portrait GalleryNot only were the legal oracles right as to the fact of Sir James Wilde's appointment, but also as to the special fitness which prompted the prophecy. The brief period during which be exercised his judicial functions in the Court of Exchequer was still long enough to make it evident that the forensic seers were accurate in their estimate. In the familiar phraseology of his compeers he made what is term...

Excerpt from The National Portrait GalleryLord Lytton is the son of one who, for nearly half a century, took rank amongst the central figures of English literature. The author of The Caxtons, rejoicing in his own great literary success, had a cosmopolitan heart, and it would have been strange, seeing the interest be exhibited in other literary men, if he had not ardently welcomed the developing genius of his own son. He beheld in him, not only...

Excerpt from The National Portrait GalleryN selecting Mr. Gladstone as the first object of attention in our modern national portrait gallery, we take the man who once more stands at the nation's helm.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digit...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Portrait Gallery: 29, Great George Street, Westminister, January 1, 1859This picture is thus described, though not quite correctly, and perhaps only from recollection, in Aubrey's Letters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Book...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Portrait Gallery: 29, Great George Street, Westminister, January 1, 1859This picture is thus described, though not quite correctly, and perhaps only from recollection, in Aubrey's Letters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Book...

Excerpt from A List of the Paintings, Sculptures, Miniatures, &C, : With 110 IllustrationsIt is not permitted to touch the pictures, sculpture or other Objects exhibited in the Galleries.Sticks, umbrellas and parasols must be left in the Entrance Hall. Smoking is strictly prohibited. Dogs are on no account to be brought into the building.Children are not admitted unless under the Charge of some responsible person.Bags and parcels are not to be...

Excerpt from A List of the Paintings, Sculptures, Miniatures, &C, : With 110 IllustrationsIt is not permitted to touch the pictures, sculpture or other Objects exhibited in the Galleries.Sticks, umbrellas and parasols must be left in the Entrance Hall. Smoking is strictly prohibited. Dogs are on no account to be brought into the building.Children are not admitted unless under the Charge of some responsible person.Bags and parcels are not to be...

Excerpt from Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Busts, &C., In the National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, W. C: Including Every Portrait Up to the Present DateJournalist, comic-writer, and metropolitan police magistrate. Born in London and educated at Westminster School. Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, but devoted himself to literature. His writings being chie¿y in the comic vein, he produced and edited the first co...

Excerpt from Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Busts, &C., In the National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, W. C: Including Every Portrait Up to the Present DateJournalist, comic-writer, and metropolitan police magistrate. Born in London and educated at Westminster School. Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, but devoted himself to literature. His writings being chie¿y in the comic vein, he produced and edited the first co...

Excerpt from The National Portrait Gallery College, Cambridge. Of young Wilde the Wykehamist (there is a pleasant alliteration in the title) we know little. This is a case in point as to the difficulty of gathering the early archives of our great men. What we do gather, however, is pleasant and characteristic enough in its way. The future champion in the forum won his first distinction in the cricket-field, and the name which now occupies so ...

Excerpt from The National Portrait Gallery N selecting Mr. Gladstone as the first object of attention in our modern national portrait gallery, we take the man who once more stands at the nation's helm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology ...

Excerpt from The National Portrait Gallery What would have been the nature of his feelings at this recognition, on the part of the Queen, of hereditary genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserv...